Food inspection guidance: permission issuance
Find operational guidance and supporting documents to be used when conducting inspection activities to support the issuance of a domestic, import or export permission. This includes food and commodity-specific guidance for licensing, export certification, and import admissibility.
Common permission guidance
The following guidance is common to all permission-related inspection tasks
Export permission
Food export certification
- Procedure for maintaining food export eligibility lists
- Replacing export certificates for food
- Port of entry violation reported by foreign competent authorities
- Issuing a radiation certificate for shipments of exported food
Commodity specific export certification
- Introduction to Export certification inspection task tables
- Dairy and milk products
- Honey and other apicultural products
- Maple and maple products
- Egg and processed egg
- Processed fruit or vegetable products
- Fresh fruits and vegetables
- Gelatin and collagen products
- Highly refined products
- Insects
Import permission
Import admissibility (at border)
Import admissibility (post border)
Food
Commodity specific
Meat products
- Organoleptic evaluation of imported meat products
- Return (import) of exported meat products from the United States, pending the results of US laboratory analysis
- Retention of official meat inspection certificate accompanying meat shipments
- Verification of seal number when foreign seal on shipment broken while in transit
- Visual inspection of imported meat products
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